![]() I have already given notice in the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher,² the critique of jurisprudence and political science in the form of a critique of the Hegelian Philosophy of Right. The parts of the manuscripts are published in the sequence in which Marx put them down, save the Introduction, which is given in the beginning, and the Critique of Hegelian Dialectic and Philosophy as a Whole which was put in the end in accordance with the reference made by Marx in the Introduction.- Ed.] ![]() The title of Marx’s work and the headings of the various parts of the manuscripts, put in square brackets, were given by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism. XXXIX-XL) is the Introduction, which is given in the present volume at the beginning, preceding the text of the first manuscript. The third manuscript contains 43 large pages divided into two columns and paginated by Marx himself. XXII-XXVII) is given in the present book under the editor’s title, Estranged Labor. XXII to the end of the first manuscript Marx wrote across the three columns, disregarding the headings. XVII, inclusive, it is only the column headed Rent of Land which is filled in, and after p. Each of the 27 pages of the first manuscript is broken up into three columns with two vertical lines, and each of the columns on each page is supplied with a heading written in beforehand: Wages of Labor. Just the last four pages have survived of the second manuscript (pp. Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marx has come down to us in the form of three manuscripts, each of which has its own pagination (in Roman figures). ![]() A final part that I must refute - Marx blames the capitalist marketers for keeping the labor class poor by continually expanding the range of products and thus their range of "need." He assumes that (a) they are unable to save instead and that (b) everything produced becomes a legitimate necessity. This work explains the basis of communism, ties it to other economic ideas, and shows how the times produced an ideology as much as the converse. This relates to Marx's doctrine of communism and atheism, both being the ultimate of human realization. (But, in retrospect, we know it is possible for individuals to create their own value-add to their own human capital.) The last third discusses Hegel's abstraction of logic involving spirit and state. It is clear to see how the shift of the times toward mechanization made the human labor seem almost worthless. ![]() Later, we see he believes this is oK, because each individual within the species does not, by themselves, matter. Much quoting of Smith, Ricardo and Say, but then seems to re-arrange them into his own outlook that ignores the fundamental unit of decision making: the human individual. ![]()
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